views of the british people do not want to see british military action and i get that and the government will act accordingly. >> this disturbing video was released overnight saying a school take was attacked. ten killed and dozens of high school students suffered burns across 50% to 80% of their bodies. today, the administration may have new evidence to bolster its case for an attack. it is expected to release a u.s. intelligence report showing syria's government responsible for the alleged chemical attack on civilians. last night, the obama national security team shared intelligence with top members of congress in a 90-minute teleconference. it was enough to convince minority leader nancy pelosi that the u.s. should strike. in a rare interview, former president bush talked about the enormity of the situation. take a listen. >> the president has to make a tough decision. putting our military into harm's way is the toughest decision a

president will make. >> let's bring in msnbc.com daphne and jack jacobs retired army colonel and reporter m.j. lee. with the development from the uk, the no vote, how might that change the ability for the president to garner support here in the united states? >> i think, you know, it means quite a bit. i wonder why the united states couldn't have put forth the intelligence they planned to put forth today to the public before the british parliament had voted. maybe that would have made a difference. i think for the president, you know, he wants to go in, if he does, with the greatest amount of support and to have to show that your key ally, your strongest ally, your stallworth is with you all the time and i think is unfortunate for the president. he has to have a lot of strength more than nancy pelosi behind him for congress and public support he'll want to garner and, obviously, this attempt to

put out intelligence this afternoon is part of that process. >> m.j., elliott engle, the ranking member on the foreign affairs committee said after last night's conference call we talked about a second ago that he is convinced the united states should take military action. listen to this. >> if we stand idly by every desperate in the war thinks they can commit war crimes and nobody does anything. >> did the president back himself into a corner by being so definitive, shall we say, about that red line? >> sure, richard. i think the irony here is that president obama, when he was candidate obama, ran on this message that president bush's unilateral approach in iraq was not acceptable and now he finds himself in a position where he doesn't have the support, it seems like, from the uk, and he is on the brink of launching an attack against syria, largely alone. i think it's interesting that the president is somebody who is not interested in having his

legacy be largely defined by wars. i think he would much rather his legacy be defined by his ability to turn around the economy after a global financial crisis, a passing a land mark, a health care law. he certainly wants to be the president who is able to fix the country's broken immigration system and i think it will be interesting to see if the president does decide to launch an attack against syria, how his legacy will be changed as a result of this. does he become the president whose legry is defined by wars and something that he certainly, i think, wants to avoid. it's not something he was looking for. >> colonel, the president receiving pushback from both sides of the aisle. republicans too. rand paul said this this morning. listen to what he said. >> it sounds to me like saving face because he has made a promise so he is going to follow through with his promise. that's why you ought to be very careful about drawing lines in the sand or red lines, because now he feels that he looks weak to both his colleagues and the united states, as well as his

international colleagues. but i don't think that is enough reason to go to war. >> colonel, noah feldman wrote in bloomberg asked if breaking international law was worth punishing another law who broke international law. he is elude to go military action here. >> yeah. it's -- i never thought i would agree with paul. but there is a great deal of truth to what he said. the principle reason for our action is to demonstrate that the president means what he says, despite the fact will not overturn the assad regime and it's not going to deter him from using wme using weapons of mass destruction. i think the only strategic argument in the national political argument is that an attack might show iran we are serious but it's a limit objective attack. we will attack some airfields and so on and probably have to do it again. i don't think it's going to have any positive effect on the situation in syria.

>> what are the parts of this debate right now, is the support here in the united states? we have a new nbc news poll. just some the data from. besides congress, the president looking at the american public. the poll showing that it is mixed right now. 42% support u.s. military action in syria. 50% oppose. but with cruise missile strikes against syria, the numbers are flipped. 50% support and 44% oppose. overwhelming majority, 79% say the president should get congressional approval before launching a strike against syria. you know, getting congressional approval could take some time here. looking at the timetable, we are already past the initial reports of the attack. should the president wait and garner more support here in the united states? sort of change those polling numbers that we are looking at? >> yeah. he doesn't seem to be headed that way. it's interesting. again, i think a lot of this is going to be focused on what he makes -- what the white house makes public today in terms of

intelligence. because they don't seem to be moving towards congress, even though the polls show they do. i think 50%, each 50% support for a limited military strike is not 60% and still a lot of people who oppose. so i think that is something the president has to juggle. it's just a factor for him for sure. >> m.j., as we look at the uk's vote yesterday, the special relationship that the united states and the uk have enjoyed for so many decades, does this mean there's a bump in that relationship and what does that say about u.s. leadership looking forward globally? >> i think certainly losing or potentially losing the uk support if the president does decide to launch an attack against syria, that is a big blow for the president. i mentioned before that because as candidate obama, he had really pushed this message that unilateral approach when it comes to, you know, being involved in overseas affairs and lanching attacks is not acceptable. he said this about president bush and his approach in iraq.

i think this puts him in definitely a tricky position and i think as daphne mentioned earlier the more support from your allies the better standing you have. i think especially because he is facing some opposition from members of congress as well and the low sort of appetite that there is among the american public, the more support that he can garner, the better position that the president will find himself in. >> m.j. lee and daphne, thank you very much. colonel, if you could stand by for us. i want to bring in scott, a member of the house armed services committee. congressman, thanks for being with us. we have been looking at your twitter -- your tweets and what you've been putting out. this morning, you were tweeting you would vote no on a u.s. military attack on syria. why would you vote no and under what conditions might you vote yes? >> given the information i have right now, i would vote no. the process that so many of us in congress and the house of representatives are calling on

the president to follow is one defined and outlined in our constitution. he does not have the authority, absent one of the three provisions of the war pours act to be triggered in obtaining statutory authorization. that is what we are calling him to do. and i'm hopeful -- >> under what conditions might you support military action? >> you presented me with a hypothetical there that we would really have to work through all of that. our focus here is limited to the process. the threshold for me, personally, given the circumstances there in syria, it's a calderon of confusion. the ramification, the long-term outcome of all this has such dire consequences that my threshold is very high. i would be open -- >> what is that threshold if the united states intelligence report we are learning that is coming out today shows that

international law was broken by syria's government and if we get positive information from the investigation by the u.n. investigators, would that be that high bar for you? >> no. i really believe that the outcome of that investigation will show that chemical weapons were used and that the fingerprints of the assad regime are upon that horrific attack. i don't question that that is really how this is going to unfold. the question before us, of course, is what then is our obligation? and also the process by which we come to this decision. this capitol behind me is empty largely and, yesterday, a vigorous debate took place in the parliament in britain. here we are. i find it ironic given our country. we have the president operating and it's not the king's army. he must come before congress and get statutory authority. this is not a trite matter.

it's how it's defined in our constitution. >> might the president be looking at the congress and saying that the u.s. congress has been polarized, unable to act and, therefore, based on the last two koncongresss how might expect action? >> look at the signatures of the letter i offered and barbara lee, a separate but similar letter has 50 democrats. we have 21 democrats on our letter. 140 members are on the letter that i offered and i'm just honored to have that kind of bipartisan support. if you eliminate the duplicates as was pointed out last night, a democratic congresswoman on the same show, 180 calling on the president firmly, respectfully to slow down, to call us into session, and if the evidence is compelling and if his strategic objective is clearly defined, you give the american people

good information, they will make good decisions. here we are leaning upon the british parliament taking guidance -- >> what would you suggest then? what would be the solution since you're saying no to all of this? >> what i'm saying -- >> what would you say yes to? what is your suggestion? >> i would say yes to the president following the guidelines and what is clearly delineated in the constitution. he called us into session. we could be here 24 hours. we could have, say, perhaps 12 hours debate and deliberate and then vote an up and down vote both houses a concurrent resolution. one way or another that is the right process and much to be gained by that. >> representative scott rigell, thank you for your time. >> thank you. breaking news. secretary of state john kerry is expected to make a statement on syria today at 12:30 today.

stick with us for that. i want to talk more about what this means from the military standpoint. colonel jack jacobs joins us now. we had the video that came in on the napalm-like substance. you can tell, based on your experience as a soldier here, whether or not this may or may not have been napom. what did you see? >> you have to take a closer look at the wounds that we had an opportunity to see on that video. it could be either a nabottom-like substance that is easy to make or white phosphorus. neither one is permitted to be used against civilians. it looked like a napom-like substance. >> what might it mean for the united states if they go it alone? >> it's extremely difficult and impossible to put a nato stamp on this thing.

we have france but not great britain so we have to go under the auspices of a coalition that doesn't exist. turkey, saudi arabia, united states and france and, the cruise missiles will be american and this will be effectively be american. >> the u.s. doesn't need the uk to carry out its plans? >> oh, no. with the uk, i don't think that the plans necessarily called for very much involvement in nato. this was going to be our ordnance by and large. >> how long will this drag out? it could be a day, a week or month? >> i would think the plan is several days of attacks. not one, maybe two days, maybe more. we have to remember what the objective is. if the objective is to get us out from stopping attacks on civilians or to use -- stopping the use of mass -- weapons of mass destruction on civilians

this isn't going to stop it. the only way you're going to stop that is if you have an enormous exercise of american military mite and we are not going to do that. this is a really a demonstration. it's an -- it's an empty gesture and it's not going to have any military effect, except take out some of the airfields. that will have a military effect negatively on assad forces but not overturn the regime. >> colonel, thank you for your objectives and help on this. >> you're welcome. john kerry expect a statement from his at 12:30. we mentioned before according to a new poll 42% of americans support u.s. military involvement. thomas roberts went out to talk to people in manhattan to see what they think about this. take a listen. >> it's hard to really be involved but, at the same time, it's important to say that human

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nfl agreed to pay three-quarter bill for nfl players as another one is carried off on a stretcher. seth olson took an parent knee to the head. he walked to the locker room later but did suffer a concussion. that is a day in the life for a football player some might say. yesterday's nfl snettlement finl caused some real questions. mike florio joins me now. we lot the penalty about three-quarters of a billion. will this penalty really cause an incentive for the nfl to change when it comes to safety? >> you can make the argument the nfl has already realized that it needs to change for safety purposes. not because of litigation reasons, richard, but because of the supply of future football players that parents are keeping

a close watch on this concussion situation and possibly deciding to keep their kids out of football eventually in theory that could choke off the supply of future nfl players. the nfl woke up on this several years ago. this is about dealing with players from past years who claim that the nfl concealed what it knew and when it knew at about the risks of concussions over the long haul and it's about clearing the decks and also taking care of those retired players and then moving forward with different systems in place to compensate players who have suffered injuries during games. >> let's look at the settlement and some of the numbers you know so well. the average, the settlement, about $170,000 per claimant if you do the math there. the players and families are eligible actually up to $5 million each. when you do the math, the question is, you know, is their settlement enough here? >> well, here is the challenge. the challenge is to resist doing the math at least as a threshold matter because it's easy to say $765 million divided by 4,500

but the reality is all retired players are a part in this. you won't know what you're getting until you're evaluated by two independent doctors who will work in conjunction with administrators to determine what you get to have a real injury. if i'm a former player to decide whether i want this deal and opt out of it and continue with the litigation, right now when i have to make this decision in the next few months, i don't know what i'm going to get if i stay in the settlement. that is the biggest problem. >> what are nfl watchers saying about that agreement? is it enough? >> i don't think -- i don't think it's quite chris calized crystallized the former players know what they are getting into. a lot of have clear injuries and definitely get compensated but there is a gulf of players who think they they have cognitive injuries and they may find out the two independent doctors don't think they are injured as much as they think they are. this is the reality as people

get a chance to digest this. plenty of players decide they don't like this deal and exercise our right to opt out and continue to sue. >> popular mechanics. they measured the g-force that nfl players experience in these hits and they said up to 150 g's on the right-hand side of that chart you see there compared to about 9 g's for an f-16 fighter jet roll. as we look toward a situation, might it be the electronic sensors in helmets that are used in some college football teams for years now? >> that is a possible solution. by the time a player gets to the nfl, especially now in the year 2013, they understand the risks, they accept the risks and they get compensated handsomely to do so. right now, teams are trying to pare their roster from 95 to 53 and there are not players saying i don't want to play pro

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he talked to msnbc chris hayes last night saying he has confirmed several times that he is straight and not gay. he says that is is not what we should be talking about. >> the point i'm getting a chance to make right now, and i'm really, really want to drive this home, is that we need to stop in america talking about anybody, in a public realm, besides what is important. the courage within their hearts to serve others. that is what is important. >> a major announcement from the treasury department. the irs now recognizing married same-sex couples for all federal tax purposes, regardless of where they live. also yesterday, a federal judge ordered the department of veterans affairs to provide full benefits to a virginia vaernt in a same-sex marriage. let me bring in susan del percio and james peterson. james, starting with you. after this irs announcement that i just mentioned, the president

of the national organization for marriage released this statement saying, quote, the obama administration is intent on forcing same-sex marriage on an unwilling public, end quote. what is your reaction to that? >> to that statement? >> yes. >> that statement is absurd. that statement stands in the face of the tidal wave of energy and organization around these issues the last couple of decades but certainly reached certain benchmarks the last couple of years that are important including the repeal of don't ask, don't tell, the president coming out in favor of marriage equality, and what this is really, really important for same-sex couples in terms of if you live in a state that doesn't recognize marriage, now it's actually economically beneficial for you to go to another state and get married because the ferguson will recognize your tax status as an couple. these victories are very important for people who have essentially had second class

citizenship in the united states. >> a busy year when it comes to those issues related to same sexy couples and same-sex marriage. we see a trend when it comes to same-sex couples of gay rights advocates and they are going to courts and not legislation and affect what they would like to have happen. what does this mean for conservatives as they see judges really affecting this trend and not legislation? what does it mean for them? >> at this point, we are talking about legislation that was passed. talking about supreme court rulings which, in the federal government, is now following, in my opinion, rightfully so. what is interesting is now we have 37 states that do not have same-sex marriage. so it will be interesting to see if conservatives especially use this as a wedge to promote their own agendas because it's the federal taxable dollar number that states use when they apply their own income tax. so this is going to be another potential wedge issue for states if they want to push their agenda along.

at the same time, states that may go either way will also use it as a way of basically enforcing a lot of the same-sex marriage rights on the federal level on the state level. >> is this still a partisan issue? we had two yesterday we were reporting on. can republicans oppose this and not face a repercussion in the voting booth? >> it's really becoming a generationalish i think now more than ever and the country is split on it but i think it's moving towards same sex equality on marriages because it's become a civil rights issue. honestly if the republicans want to continue to grow or if they ever want to take back a presidency, they have to be able to be willing to consider both sides of the issue. >> james, i want to hit that point one more time. should decisions on same-sex marriage be left for legislatures where elected letters decide and not judges here? >> well, i think -- because of where we are right now, because we have had so much progress but still a bit of progress to go, i think it has to be fought on all fronts and i think the organizers and activists are

doing this. i reached out to adrian shanker who has been working on these issues for a long time now. seeing the successes is galvanizing but still work to do. because states can exercise a certain kind of control over the rights of some of their citizens had has to be fought on all fronts. i want to congratulate the activists working to hard on these things because yesterday was a big day for us. >> chris christie was in a situation we were discussing on earlier. he recently vetoed a same-sex marriage bill passed by state lawmakers. what might you see in terms of impact for him going forward, if he were to run for president, for instance? the buzz that will be around that very decision that he made. >> well, it will be interesting because he is in a very blue state and first running for re-election of that and he has leeway because his popularity is running high. the question will be will his

state recognize the taxable income level from the federal level because of marriage, because they recognize marriage equality. this is going to be a very interesting time politically. >> that will be state-by-state. james with everything that is happening with supreme court and these latest rulings, how will the dynamic change here concern gay rights in the 2014 midterm and 2016 general elections fall out? >> it's interesting to see whether or not the republican party will acknowledge the transformation of this nation over the most recent generation. we have made a transformation. people are more in favor of marriage equality. understand it's a civil rights issue. if they want to be the party to embrace more people they have to embrace that. i think it's going to be an issue in 2014, but the question will be will the leaders of the republican party acknowledge where this nation is in terms of

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as you probably already know, yawning is contagious but man's best friend isn't immune. research shows dogs yawn when they see a human yawn, especially if it's their owner. washington, d.c. mayor has a decision that could cost his city a fortune or could cost him in political capital. will he or won't he sign a controversial bill to force major employers like walmart to pay workers significantly more than the minute wage? the bill basically says you can't live on the minimum in washington, d.c. so big businesses need to bump up their salaries. joining me now from washington is mary kay henry. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> walmart and similar large rye tale irs would be forced to pay 50% more than the way we understand it than d.c.'s

minimum wage which is at $8.25. what is the argument for such a large increase some of these business might ask? >> i think it's looking at the profits of multinational corporations all across the globe and asking ourselves the question -- can this country afford more and more low wage jobs by multinational corporations who just need to invest a piece of their profits in making sure that people can work hard and be able to feed themselves and their families and that is a basic american promise that has been broken by companies like walmart. >> you've heard the argument, these companies saying, well, you know what we will do? we will pick up and move out of the region and take our jobs with us at the same time. given that we are looking at an economy that is struggling a bit in certain spaces in the country, isn't this a little bit counterproductive? >> no, not at all. i think that is why the strikes that happened yesterday by fast food and retail workers in 63

cities all across this nation were such an inspiration because i think what they are trying to say is when you look at the record profits being posted by the top eight multinationals, there ought to be a way for workers to be able to work hard and get housing, food, and transportation. these workers aren't making demands that is about getting ahead. they just want to get by. i met with marcello clark yesterday. she is 26 years old. she has three semesters of community college. she cannot do any more than education because she can't -- things that we value as americans are not possible for 1 in 3 workers all across our economy and lots of workers are standing up and saying, we need to be invested in, because it will help get the economy going again by growing it from the middle out. >> mary kay, marcello probably wants the council's vote 8-5

last month. they want this bill to go forward. will the mayor say yes? can he really say no? >> i don't know what the mayor will do. but i do think these kinds of attempts by d.c. city council, by the fast food workers to get wages up again is a key way to get our economy going again. 70% of our economy is revved up through consumer spending and workers don't have enough money in their pockets. d.c. city council is trying to fix that and fast food workers are trying to fix that. all across this country, we need to have a conversation about how government helps and workers stand up for themselves and how multinational corporations and our employers come to the table so we can grow this economy from the middle out and create good jobs again. >> yesterday, you were probably watching the striking workers at mcdonald's and other fast food chains. >> i was with them in detroit. >> you were probably out there with them. >> yes, i was.

>> you were in detroit. they are pushing for higher wages because you were there and you know. they like the 15 dollar an hour mark there. no major changes yet because that was not the first strike. do you think a bigger change might be happening in the future? >> absolutely, richard. the thing that i've noticed is more and more government officials are joining these workers on the picket lines. we have had clergy, a lot of clergy with us that have been with these workers from the beginning in detroit. >> when will this break, though? >> i think that's a question that when you look at history, there's always been change. henry ford decided to make the five dollar day possible when nobody thought that was what autoworkers should earn. we have had janitors and security officers that were in minimum wage jobs that are now in living wage jobs because they joined together and said, we need to bargain with our employers to have wages that make sense, both for the employer and for workers. we can return to that kind of labor management cooperation

that ford, gm, and chrysler have to get the economy going again. >> mary kay henry thank you. >> thank you. former nba player turned author and philanthropist. why is there always money for war and never education? interesting question. d? we can't just spend a little qt as a posse? on the download? dad, why are you talking like that? i was just hoping you would give me the last piece of bacon. holler! holla... i don't know. [ male announcer ] when it comes to common language we all speak bacon. the very best cuts naturally hardwood smoked. it's unanimous food. it's oscar mayer.

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we are still watching the news coming out of syria on the subject of syria, our own andrea mitchell that president obama is leading a national security council at the white house on syria. secretary of state john kerry is also there. this could be perhaps in preparation for a secretary kerry statement which is going come up at 12:30 and doing that at the state department. what we understand he is expected to go into unclassified intelligence that the administration has been giving to congress. so again that will be coming up

at 2:12:30. thousands were displaced in a category 3 hurricane struck the gulf coast eight years ago. our own chris jansing went to the new orleans area to get a firsthand look at the devastation and discovery. here is today's "flashback friday." >> reporter: one week after katrina struck, the floodwaters in new orleans are receding and the task of recovering bodies is continuing. the mayor ray nagin joins us now. it's unbelievable here. they haven't let people back into their homes yet. >> unbelievable. >> ungodly believable. think of the years people put their lives in here and the blink of the eye, it's gone. >> reporter: here is one house sitting on top of a truck and another one right across also a

house sitting on a truck. i'm going to try to get into this house. this was a nice house. beautiful home. you actually rode out the storm here. >> yeah, day 22. >> what were you thinking? >> i don't know that i was thinking. i could hear the tiles falling off the roof and the wind picking up. >> reporter: there is nothing to do in these neighborhoods but bulldoze entire streets. this is a neighborhood that is totally displaced and no unbelievable sense you can imagine. things were moved, entire houses, cars, boats. and their future is really extremely uncertain. i don't think i've talked to anyone who hasn't broken down in tears at some point. >> lost three kitties in the house and these are kitties that were on the house in cages, you know? i mean, i'm sorry for people, but animals! they can't do anything for themselves, you know?

it's just heart breaking! >> our own chris jansing. eight years later, officials say 80% of the population has returned to the area. and that is good news. that wraps up this hour of jansing and company. thomas roberts is up next. >> we will pick up where you left off talking about what is going on at the white house as we speak. will the president go it alone in syria? we will hear more from we hear from secretary kerry coming up this afternoon. the u.s.'s staunchist ally is jecketing military act i-- rejecting military action, that is the united kingdom. the nfl and more than 4,500 players reach a multimillion dollar settlement in a concussion lawsuit. is it a band-aid in a much bigger part of the sport? we will ask a former quarterback

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the president has got a tough choice to make and if he decides to use our military, he will have the greatest military ever backing him up. putting our military into harm's way is the toughest decision a president will make. >> that was president george w. bush earlier today, talking for the first time about syria and about the difficult decision ahead of president obama as he weighs whether to take military action. good morning, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. breaking news. president obama is meeting now as we speak with top advisers at the white house and if the president gives the green light to strike syria, he could end up doing